Questions Answered
On Gravitational Waves:
- Q: What is a gravitational wave? [17 May 2012]
- Q: What's the Difference Between a "Gravitational Wave" and a Gravity Wave? [18 January 2013]
- Q: How do we know gravitational waves really exist if we've never directly detected one? [12 April 2012]
- Q: What do gravitational waves "sound" like? [28 June 2012]
- Q: What would a gravitational wave feel like? [22 June 2012]
- Q: How can gravitational waves help mankind? [26 January 2012]
- Q: What can you learn by NOT detecting gravitational waves? [14 June 2012] (titled: "The Null Result: NOT Finding What You Were Looking For")
- Q: Do gravitational waves cast shadows? [12 July 2012] (titled: "The Journey of a Gravitational Wave I: GWs Case No Shadows!")
- Q: Can gravitational waves be lensed? [26 July 2012] (titled: "The Journey of a Gravitational Wave II: GWs Get Bent")
- Q: Do gravitational waves experience redshifting? [10 August 2012] (titled: "The Journey of a Gravitational Wave III: GWs Get Stretched Out")
- Q: If Light is Stretched/Compressed by Gravitational Waves, Why Use Light Inside LIGO? [13 September 2012]
- Q: What methods have been used to look for gravitational waves?
- Resonant Mass Detectors [30 June 2013]
On the LIGO Detector:
- Q: What does LIGO look like? [15 March 2012]
- Q: Why are there 2 LIGO's? [17 February 2012]
- Q: Is there anything like LIGO outside of the USA? [17 February 2012]
- Q: Why isn't LIGO sensitive to GW from the Sun, Moon, or planets? [10 May 2012]
- Q: What was/will be the detection range of Initial/Advanced LIGO? [12 August 2011]
- Q: Can there be a gravitational wave detection before Advanced LIGO? [4 November 2011]
- Q: What does it mean if gravitational waves aren't detected with aLIGO? [4 November 2011]
- Q: How can gravitational waves help mankind?, part II: Spin-off technology [7 June 2012]
- Q: How can LIGO possibly detect gravitational waves distinctly from the thermal mirror vibration? [5 August 2011] (Highlight the hidden answer at the bottom of the post.)
- Q: Why would our blood boil if we were inside LIGO's vacuum? [26 April 2012] (scroll down the post for this)
Other Gravity Related:
- Q: How does Einstein@Home search for gravitational waves? [22 September 2011]
- Q: What's the difference between a "Gravitational Wave" and a "Gravity Wave"? [18 January 2013]
- Q: Are there really Vegas odds on GW detection? [23 February 2012]
- Q: What are gravitons? [25 August 2011]
- Q: What Would Happen to the Earth if the Sun Became a Black Hole? [27 September 2012] (titled: "Gravity - The Love Story I: Black Holes Are Not 'Universal' Drains")
- Q: How Does Something Get "Eaten" By a Black Hole? [1 November 2012] (titled: "Gravity - The Love Story II: Starstruck!")
On Becoming a Physicist:
- Becoming a Physicist [10 December 2010]
- Becoming a Physicist II - The Cost $ [15 December 2010]
- The Two-Body Problem: Relationships and Physicists [31 May 2012]
Advanced LIGO
- Initial LIGO is Dead! Long Live Advanced LIGO! [20 October 2010]
- First Software Engineering Run for Advanced LIGO [19 January 2012]
Miscellaneous Science Interest
- On Leap Years and Keeping Time [1 March 2012]
- Solar Flares and Space Weather [8 March 2012]
- No "Faster Than Light" Neutrinos [5 April 2012]
- What Is a Higgs Boson?, What Did CERN See?, and Why It's a Big Deal! [5 July 2012]
- Gravitational Waves Seen in the Polarization of Light From the Big Bang [21 March 2014]
Physics Teaching
- This xkcd Comic Hit Home With Me: "Teaching Physics" [18 May 2012]
- Lessons Learned From My Childhood on How to Teach [28 February 2013]
Academic Culture
- My Erdös Number [9 June 2011]
- Academic Genealogy [19 July 2011]
- The Impostor Syndrome [27 June 2011] (titled: "Slaying My Own Dragons")
- The Two-Body Problem: Relationships and Physicists [31 May 2012]
